The Romans

Ideas reflected in modern computational linguistics

• Features (POS characterization by binary features) Varro, Hovdhaugen p 76-77, Law p. 47
• Morphology
• Declensions Charisisus, Varro etc. Hovdhaugen p 75, Law p 47, Robins p. 63
• Distinction inflection/derivation Varro Law p 47, Priscianus Law p 89
• Parts of speech
• Donatus Law p 67, Hovdhaugen p 89, Harris & Taylor p 54
• Varro - Hovdhaugen p. 74
• Quintillianus - Harris & Taylor p. 69.
  
• Priscianus - Robins p. 71. [.ps]
• Type hierarchy, Schulgrammatik, Regulae, Law p. 76.
• Phonetics & Phonology
• Quintilianus Hovdhaugen p. 86, Harris & Taylor 65, 69.
• Priscianus Robins 69, Hovdhaugen 101
• Donatus Hovdhaugen 89
• Syntax
• Varro - Harris & Taylor 48
• Priscianus - Hovdhaugen 101-102 104-105 Robins 73-74 Law 89
  
• Dependency grammar (& Pragmatics) Priscianus Law p. 91
  
• Explicit rule-based linguistics (for second language learning) Law p. 83 ff t.ex. Probus Priscianus
• Corpus Linguistics "partitiones" Priscianus Law p. 86.
• [.ps] [.tex] Spoken Language Hovdhaugen p. 99
• Ellipsis
  
• Priscianus Law p. 91, Hovdhaugen p. 104-105
  
• Lexical semantics
  
• Charisius p. 97 Hovdhaugen [pdf] [tex] Semantic aspects on Verb Paradigm [by Karin Cavallin]
• Case, Aspect, Tense
• T&A Varro Robins p. 64
• C Quintilianus Robins p. 66
• C Priscianus Robins p. 72
•  Prior & Later -- word ranks -- modification
• Type hierarchies - p. 46 Law
• Transitivity, Reflexivity -
• Apollonius introduced - Priscianus elaborated, Law p. 90
•  Fault (error?) analysis
  [Chosen by: Rebecca]
• [Omission Addition Transposition Substitution] -> Editing distance, Hamming distance.
• Quintilianus, Harris & Taylor p. 69-70
• Error typology, Barbarism Solecism etc.
•  Donatus (Harris & Taylor?) p. 89 etc.
  

Ideas that might be worth reviving